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Re: new Ducktales series

They kinda have to don't they?

Tho I'd really like it if they re-cast McDuck right out the bat. Alan Young is iconic and everything, but he's in his 90's at this point and they may have to do a recast out of necessity soon anyway. Probably same should go for June Foray.

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I really don'#t like the idea of 3D to be honest, sure for some stuff it works, but for something that was originally 2D,i'm against it, also, they absolutely must and have to use the original opening song for it.

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Well, maybe they'll adapt the rest of the Barks stories this time. Or some of the Rosa ones.

Just please, no Bubba Duck.

Originally Posted by Conekiller

They kinda have to don't they?

Tho I'd really like it if they re-cast McDuck right out the bat. Alan Young is iconic and everything, but he's in his 90's at this point and they may have to do a recast out of necessity soon anyway. Probably same should go for June Foray.

Wow yeah, she's 97. How did she not get nominated for an emmy until 2012?

Originally Posted by RuNa

Hold up...they are actually going to put Donald in this just like the comics?

Now I'm interested.

First time around they avoided Donald because they were afraid (and rightly so) that he'd overshadow the rest of the cast by being the most well known.

Scrooge has had 30 years to percolate in the public conscious and is probably about comparable by now. The trick there is two-fold however.

1)In the old cartoon, Launchpad filled Donald's role generally where appropriate.
2) You can actually understand what Launchpad is saying.
3)Fenton/Gizmoduck then further filled that role in the second season.

They've already had proxies for Donald filling his general role, so... they can have him around, but don't ned him full time, the cartoon verse has a few more main characters in it.

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It would be amazing if they could do like, a standalone 5 parter "Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck", though obviously they'd never be able to adapt the entire story (or its companion book)... and they'd probably insist on having the nephews be active in the story and whatnot and would have to contain it to flashbacks or something dumb.

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I heard the original creators of the comic series weren't pleased with Ducktales as it didn't fit their vision despite it's popularity back in the day. Wonder if this new series will be more in line with that while incorprating the old series. I know they want a new generation to like this but don't want to piss off older fans too. Such a hard balance.

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Originally Posted by Retro

I heard the original creators of the comic series weren't pleased with Ducktales as it didn't fit their vision despite it's popularity back in the day. Wonder if this new series will be more in line with that while incorprating the old series. I know they want a new generation to like this but don't want to piss off older fans too. Such a hard balance.

Well yeah, the cartoon, as good as it was, was pretty inferior and more kiddified. Even the stories it took directly from Barks weren't as good as the originals. (And they were already all-ages appropriate.)

I got into reading the original comics about a decade ago and they were really good, which got me interested in rewatching the show... and it just doesnt hold up that well in comparison.

One of the big things is Scrooge's personality was pretty different. Its hard to explain what exactly the difference is, since they were mostly the same, but... ome subtlties were lost. And a lot of the episodes were even sillier than the already silly comics.

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Originally Posted by Robby

It would be amazing if they could do like, a standalone 5 parter "Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck", though obviously they'd never be able to adapt the entire story (or its companion book)... and they'd probably insist on having the nephews be active in the story and whatnot and would have to contain it to flashbacks or something dumb.

Still, a guy can dream.

That WOULD be a dream, and the first thing my hopeful heart thought of when I heard this news.

Still...you gotta wonder what changes will be made to the characters and designs to fit the year 2017. Scrooge and all the nephews are so iconic in my mind that I can already find my fanboy self rebelling at the thought of alterations.

If more Barks/Don Rosa leaning stories are one end of the spectrum then I can't help but imagine Quack Pack But With Scrooge at the other.

PS: Duck it up like..Quack Pack? No seriously, I hope they learned their lesson from that. Because you know, pop culture references and being "HIP" was probably not the best way to go but...we'll see...we'll see.

PSS: Hope if this potentially succeeds then we might get a reboot of Darkwing Duck...or heck, even a crossover which would be cool.

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I was okay with the idea of Quack Pack
a)giving the nephews distinct appearances
2)bringing them in line with the style or the time

Of course, they failed to give them any sort of distinctive personalities, and the style aged badly, and the show was na overall mess... and it had humans instead of dogs...

but the trio has gone back to default in the stuff made since then. So all is well.

I'm not sure what age Max Goof is currently though. He sort of grew up in real time up through that one christmas special where he brought home his new girlfriend that looked and sounded exactly like Roxanne that wasn't actually Roxanne.